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'''William "Curly Bill" Brocius''' or '''Brocious''' (c. 1845-[[March 24]], [[1882]]) was an [[American Old West]] [[outlaw]], [[gunslinger|gunman]] and member of the Cow-boys outlaw gang of the [[Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone]] area in the [[Arizona Territory]] during the early 1880s.

== Name confusion ==

Brocius is sometimes confused with "Curly Bill" Graham, who was a different outlaw of the same general place and period. Curly Bill Graham was killed in a gunfight by Deputy Sheriff James D. Houck [[October 17]], [[1887]], buried in [[Young, Arizona]], and is almost certainly not the Curly Bill of Charleston and Tombstone.

In newspapers of the time Brocius is usually known simply as "Curly Bill", but later he was also referred to by the spelling of "Curley Bill". The spelling of "Brocious" has also been used (including in modern movies), but "Brocius" is the name the outlaw used for his maildrop in the Arizona Territory, according to one published letter of the time. Brocius is probably an alias. His birth name (including middle initial) and date of birth are unknown.

Stories that Brocius once had a wife and children and paid another man to fight in the American Civil War for him, all arise from unverifiable claims in a letter that somebody (later untraceable) once sent to historian Ben Traywick. They are based on the very poorest of evidence, and are often disregarded.

==Description==
The only known picture of Brocius can be found in the Bird Cage Theater Museum in Tombstone. He was known to have been a big man, well-built, with curly black hair, and of freckled complexion.

Brocius is described by contemporary Billy Breakenridge in his book ''[[Helldorado]]'' as being the most deadly pistol shot of the Cowboys, able to hit running jackrabbits, shoot out candle flames without breaking the candles or lantern holders, and able to shoot quarters from between the fingers of "volunteers." When drunk, Brocius was also known for a mean sense of humor, and for such "[[practical joke]]s" as using gunfire to make a preacher "dance" during a sermon, or making Mexicans at a community dance take off their clothes and dance naked. (Both incidents were reported by [[Wells Fargo]] agent Fred Dodge in his memoirs, and both incidents are alluded to in the newspapers of the time).

== Arrival in Tombstone, confrontations with Wyatt Earp ==

Brocius probably came to the Arizona Territory from [[Texas]] around 1878 after arriving at the [[San Carlos Reservation]] with a herd of cattle, but his earlier history is a matter of question. [[Wyatt Earp]], from conversations with Brocius while transporting him to Tucson for trial (for shooting town [[Marshal]] [[Fred White]]) in 1880, thought Brocius was an escaped outlaw from [[El Paso, Texas]]. There, he is the man who possibly had his right ear shot through by Texas Ranger Thomas Mode. <ref>(El Paso Daily Times, 18 July 1883)</ref>

These conversations with Earp were reported in the ''[[Tombstone Epitaph]]'' at the time. According to Earp, Curly Bill had asked him about lawyers during the journey, and Earp had recommended a man named Zabriski. Curly Bill had said he could not use Zabriski because Zabriski had years earlier been his state prosecutor for a crime he had been convicted of in El Paso, Texas—a robbery in which a man had been killed. Later historical work based in this fact has linked "Brocius" with a man known as William "Curly Bill" Bresnaham, who was convicted in a Texas robbery attempt in 1878 with another known "Cow-boy" of the Tombstone area, named Robert Martin. These men were convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison, but both escaped, presumably to the southwest Arizona Territory. Since both Robert Martin and Curly Bill became known as leaders of the rustlers in Arizona Territory, they are likely the same Robert Martin and Curly Bill of the Texas crime.

According to historian [[Robert M. Utley]], Robert Martin was a member of the [[Jesse Evans]] gang of outlaws in [[New Mexico]] during the mid to late 1870s. [[Billy the Kid]] briefly joined this group before going to work for [[John Tunstall]]. Evans' gang, a loosely-knit consortium of desperadoes known as "The Boys", would end up fighting against the "Regulators" during the [[Lincoln County War]]. Because of the time frame, location, and his friendship with Martin, Curly Bill Brocius may have been a member of the Evans gang as well. When Brocius was shot in Galeyville in 1881, he derided his attacker, Jim Wallace, as a "Lincoln County sonofabitch".

Undersheriff Wyatt Earp (with a deputy) was transporting Brocius to [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]] for trial after the [[October 27]], [[1880]], shooting of Tombstone town Marshal [[Fred White]], following an incident where Brocius' gun discharged (apparently accidentally) while he was drunk and surrendering it to White. Initial reports indicated Brocius might have employed the commonly used [[road agent's spin]] on White, but Wyatt's testimony later largely discounted this theory. He was arrested immediately after the incident by Wyatt Earp, who "buffaloed" ([[pistol whip]]ped) him in the process, knocking him briefly unconscious. While Brocious reportedly regretted shooting White, he did not consider himself to have committed a crime (even directly after the act, by his own testimony), and deeply resented the pistol-whipping as an unnecessary and humiliating response from a man he barely knew and respected not at all. Earp, acting in his capacity as deputy sheriff (undersheriff for the Tombstone area) of [[Pima County, Arizona]], then took Brocius to Tucson the next day for trial, possibly averting a lynching. Brocius waived his right to a preliminary hearing, which is evidence he wanted to get out of town.

White died two days after being shot, by which time Brocius was in jail in Tucson. Although formally charged with the murder of White, and spending most of November and December 1880 in jail awaiting trial, Brocius was acquitted with a verdict of accidental death. Before dying, White testified that he thought the pistol had gone off by accident, and that he did not believe the shooting was intentional. Wyatt Earp also testified in favor of Brocius—an irony, given their later deadly feud.

==== Clanton gang ====

Brocius was known as a rustler, but for a time, he also worked as a tax collection agent for Cochise County Sheriff [[Johnny Behan]], making other rustlers pay taxes on their stolen cattle (the money went into the sheriff's coffers and added to his salary).

On [[May 26]], [[1881]], Brocius was shot by a compadre after an argument in Galeyville. The bullet passed though his neck and out the opposite cheek, and he survived.

In July 1881, Brocius and [[Johnny Ringo]] were said to have gone to [[Hauchita]], [[New Mexico]], to kill William and Isaac Haslett in revenge for the deaths of Clanton members Bill Leonard and Harry Head, who had attempted to rob the Haslett brothers' general store weeks earlier. Later in July, Brocius was said to have led an ambush attacking a Mexican trail herd in the [[San Luis Pass, New Mexico|San Luis Pass]] killing six [[vaqueros]] and torturing the remaining eight men.
There is no way of historically verifying these stories however, and Brocius was not charged with the crimes. These events, like the Haslett killings, also occurred quite near the time of Brocius' very serious wound, so his involvement in them is somewhat questionable. Diarist George Parsons saw Brocius on [[October 6]] at the ranch of the McLaury brothers in the Sulphur Spring Valley, while Parsons was riding as part of an Indian scouting party, and noted that even by then, Curly Bill was well enough to ride but had not yet completely recovered from his wound of 5 months before.

Following the death of [[Old Man Clanton]] in the [[Guadalupe Canyon Massacre]] on [[August 13]],[[1881]], Brocius became a primary leader in the very loose-knit Cow-boy gang. Parson's refers to Brocius as "Arizona's most famous outlaw" in early October 1881. However, despite many reports since, the Cow-boy gang was not closely organized. They had a loose gang-based association but broke off into several small groups, and outlaw acts committed by them were rarely well planned or coordinated. The gang was a collection of independent outlaws that used their association with the Cow-boys as a base of operations.

== Gunfight at the OK Corral and after ==

Following the [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] in October 1881, Brocius may have participated in an attempt to kill Virgil Earp and the assassination of [[Morgan Earp]]. Brocius was not charged since there were no eyewitnesses to either crime.

After the killing of [[Frank Stilwell]] by the Earp party in Tucson on [[March 20]], [[1882]], during the [[Earp vendetta ride]], Brocius was deputized, given a warrant issued for Wyatt Earp by Sheriff Johnny Behan, and sent to bring back Earp, who was in the [[Whetstone Mountains]] outside town.

Earp, who was also looking for Brocius in revenge for the death of his brother Morgan, encountered Curly Bill on [[March 24]], [[1882]], at [[Iron Springs]] (present day [[Mescal Springs, Arizona|Mescal Springs]]). Brocius was camping outside his tent near the springs and was surprised while in the act of cooking over a campfire. In the gunfight that followed, Wyatt killed Brocius with a double shotgun blast to the chest from a range of about 50 feet (15 m). Brocius narrowly missed his own shot, hitting only Wyatt's long winter coat.

After Brocius' death, his friends were said by John Flood to have buried the body on the nearby Frank Patterson ranch on the [[Babocomari River]]. This land, close to the original McLaury ranch site before the McLaurys moved to the Sulphur Springs Valley in late 1880, originally is believed to have previously belonged to Frank Stilwell and is located on the river about five miles (8 km) west of the ghost-town [[Fairbank]]. If Brocius' body is there, in a still-wild section of country, the gravesite has been lost. Some claimed that Curly Bill escaped, changed his name, and went to Texas. However, he was never seen again in Tombstone after [[March 24]], [[1882]], despite a $2,000 reward later put up by the ''Tombstone Epitaph'' for an authentic interview and sighting of him alive.

Tombstone historian Ben Traywick has argued that this was too much money for a man like Brocius to turn down, especially since he was not wanted by the law in Arizona for any crime and had no reason to disappear when he did (and certainly no reason to go back to Texas, where he probably ''was'' a wanted man). In any case, the money offered by the ''Tombstone Epitaph'' was never claimed.

== Portrayals in film ==
*Brocius is played by [[Jon Voight]] in ''[[Hour of the Gun]]'' (1967).
*Brocius is played by [[Powers Boothe]] in the 1993 movie ''[[Tombstone (movie)|Tombstone]]'' (1993) starring [[Kurt Russell]] as Wyatt Earp. This movie draws heavily on the Breakenridge book ''[[Helldorado]]''.
*Brocius is played by [[Lewis Smith]] in the 1994 movie ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]'' ([[1994]]) starring [[Kevin Costner]] as Wyatt Earp.

== Resources ==
*Sifakis, Carl. ''Encyclopedia of American Crime''. New York: Facts on File Inc., 1982.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.westernoutlaw.com/stories/files/Showdown.pdf Quotes from historical documents]
* [http://members.tripod.com/~Tombstonehistory/cbindex.html Historical detective work by Steve Gatto]
* [http://www.tombstone1880.com/archives/curly.htm Contemporary newspaper account of Curly Bill's near-fatal shooting in May 1881]

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[[Category:1882 deaths]]
[[Category:People shot dead by police]]
[[Category:Outlaws of the American Old West]]
[[Category:Cochise County, Arizona]]
[[Category:Gunmen of the American Old West]]

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Archive:William Brocius

2008-03-30T00:01:28Z

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'''William "Curly Bill" Brocius''' or '''Brocious''' (c. 1845-[[March 24]], [[1882]]) was an [[American Old West]] [[outlaw]], [[gunslinger|gunman]] and member of the Cow-boys outlaw gang of the [[Tombstone, Arizona|Tombstone]] area in the [[Arizona Territory]] during the early 1880s.

== Name confusion ==

Brocius is sometimes confused with "Curly Bill" Graham, who was a different outlaw of the same general place and period. Curly Bill Graham was killed in a gunfight by Deputy Sheriff James D. Houck [[October 17]], [[1887]], buried in [[Young, Arizona]], and is almost certainly not the Curly Bill of Charleston and Tombstone.

In newspapers of the time Brocius is usually known simply as "Curly Bill", but later he was also referred to by the spelling of "Curley Bill". The spelling of "Brocious" has also been used (including in modern movies), but "Brocius" is the name the outlaw used for his maildrop in the Arizona Territory, according to one published letter of the time. Brocius is probably an alias. His birth name (including middle initial) and date of birth are unknown.

Stories that Brocius once had a wife and children and paid another man to fight in the American Civil War for him, all arise from unverifiable claims in a letter that somebody (later untraceable) once sent to historian Ben Traywick. They are based on the very poorest of evidence, and are often disregarded.

==Description==
The only known picture of Brocius can be found in the Bird Cage Theater Museum in Tomstone. He was known to have been a big man, well-built, with curly black hair, and of freckled complexion.

Brocius is described by contemporary Billy Breakenridge in his book ''[[Helldorado]]'' as being the most deadly pistol shot of the Cowboys, able to hit running jackrabbits, shoot out candle flames without breaking the candles or lantern holders, and able to shoot quarters from between the fingers of "volunteers." When drunk, Brocius was also known for a mean sense of humor, and for such "[[practical joke]]s" as using gunfire to make a preacher "dance" during a sermon, or making Mexicans at a community dance take off their clothes and dance naked. (Both incidents were reported by [[Wells Fargo]] agent Fred Dodge in his memoirs, and both incidents are alluded to in the newspapers of the time).

== Arrival in Tombstone, confrontations with Wyatt Earp ==

Brocius probably came to the Arizona Territory from [[Texas]] around 1878 after arriving at the [[San Carlos Reservation]] with a herd of cattle, but his earlier history is a matter of question. [[Wyatt Earp]], from conversations with Brocius while transporting him to Tucson for trial (for shooting town [[Marshal]] [[Fred White]]) in 1880, thought Brocius was an escaped outlaw from [[El Paso, Texas]]. There, he is the man who possibly had his right ear shot through by Texas Ranger Thomas Mode. <ref>(El Paso Daily Times, 18 July 1883)</ref>

These conversations with Earp were reported in the ''[[Tombstone Epitaph]]'' at the time. According to Earp, Curly Bill had asked him about lawyers during the journey, and Earp had recommended a man named Zabriski. Curly Bill had said he could not use Zabriski because Zabriski had years earlier been his state prosecutor for a crime he had been convicted of in El Paso, Texas—a robbery in which a man had been killed. Later historical work based in this fact has linked "Brocius" with a man known as William "Curly Bill" Bresnaham, who was convicted in a Texas robbery attempt in 1878 with another known "Cow-boy" of the Tombstone area, named Robert Martin. These men were convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison, but both escaped, presumably to the southwest Arizona Territory. Since both Robert Martin and Curly Bill became known as leaders of the rustlers in Arizona Territory, they are likely the same Robert Martin and Curly Bill of the Texas crime.

According to historian [[Robert M. Utley]], Robert Martin was a member of the [[Jesse Evans]] gang of outlaws in [[New Mexico]] during the mid to late 1870s. [[Billy the Kid]] briefly joined this group before going to work for [[John Tunstall]]. Evans' gang, a loosely-knit consortium of desperadoes known as "The Boys", would end up fighting against the "Regulators" during the [[Lincoln County War]]. Because of the time frame, location, and his friendship with Martin, Curly Bill Brocius may have been a member of the Evans gang as well. When Brocius was shot in Galeyville in 1881, he derided his attacker, Jim Wallace, as a "Lincoln County sonofabitch".

Undersheriff Wyatt Earp (with a deputy) was transporting Brocius to [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]] for trial after the [[October 27]], [[1880]], shooting of Tombstone town Marshal [[Fred White]], following an incident where Brocius' gun discharged (apparently accidentally) while he was drunk and surrendering it to White. Initial reports indicated Brocius might have employed the commonly used [[road agent's spin]] on White, but Wyatt's testimony later largely discounted this theory. He was arrested immediately after the incident by Wyatt Earp, who "buffaloed" ([[pistol whip]]ped) him in the process, knocking him briefly unconscious. While Brocious reportedly regretted shooting White, he did not consider himself to have committed a crime (even directly after the act, by his own testimony), and deeply resented the pistol-whipping as an unnecessary and humiliating response from a man he barely knew and respected not at all. Earp, acting in his capacity as deputy sheriff (undersheriff for the Tombstone area) of [[Pima County, Arizona]], then took Brocius to Tucson the next day for trial, possibly averting a lynching. Brocius waived his right to a preliminary hearing, which is evidence he wanted to get out of town.

White died two days after being shot, by which time Brocius was in jail in Tucson. Although formally charged with the murder of White, and spending most of November and December 1880 in jail awaiting trial, Brocius was acquitted with a verdict of accidental death. Before dying, White testified that he thought the pistol had gone off by accident, and that he did not believe the shooting was intentional. Wyatt Earp also testified in favor of Brocius—an irony, given their later deadly feud.

==== Clanton gang ====

Brocius was known as a rustler, but for a time, he also worked as a tax collection agent for Cochise County Sheriff [[Johnny Behan]], making other rustlers pay taxes on their stolen cattle (the money went into the sheriff's coffers and added to his salary).

On [[May 26]], [[1881]], Brocius was shot by a compadre after an argument in Galeyville. The bullet passed though his neck and out the opposite cheek, and he survived.

In July 1881, Brocius and [[Johnny Ringo]] were said to have gone to [[Hauchita]], [[New Mexico]], to kill William and Isaac Haslett in revenge for the deaths of Clanton members Bill Leonard and Harry Head, who had attempted to rob the Haslett brothers' general store weeks earlier. Later in July, Brocius was said to have led an ambush attacking a Mexican trail herd in the [[San Luis Pass, New Mexico|San Luis Pass]] killing six [[vaqueros]] and torturing the remaining eight men.
There is no way of historically verifying these stories however, and Brocius was not charged with the crimes. These events, like the Haslett killings, also occurred quite near the time of Brocius' very serious wound, so his involvement in them is somewhat questionable. Diarist George Parsons saw Brocius on [[October 6]] at the ranch of the McLaury brothers in the Sulphur Spring Valley, while Parsons was riding as part of an Indian scouting party, and noted that even by then, Curly Bill was well enough to ride but had not yet completely recovered from his wound of 5 months before.

Following the death of [[Old Man Clanton]] in the [[Guadalupe Canyon Massacre]] on [[August 13]],[[1881]], Brocius became a primary leader in the very loose-knit Cow-boy gang. Parson's refers to Brocius as "Arizona's most famous outlaw" in early October 1881. However, despite many reports since, the Cow-boy gang was not closely organized. They had a loose gang-based association but broke off into several small groups, and outlaw acts committed by them were rarely well planned or coordinated. The gang was a collection of independent outlaws that used their association with the Cow-boys as a base of operations.

== Gunfight at the OK Corral and after ==

Following the [[Gunfight at the O.K. Corral]] in October 1881, Brocius may have participated in an attempt to kill Virgil Earp and the assassination of [[Morgan Earp]]. Brocius was not charged since there were no eyewitnesses to either crime.

After the killing of [[Frank Stilwell]] by the Earp party in Tucson on [[March 20]], [[1882]], during the [[Earp vendetta ride]], Brocius was deputized, given a warrant issued for Wyatt Earp by Sheriff Johnny Behan, and sent to bring back Earp, who was in the [[Whetstone Mountains]] outside town.

Earp, who was also looking for Brocius in revenge for the death of his brother Morgan, encountered Curly Bill on [[March 24]], [[1882]], at [[Iron Springs]] (present day [[Mescal Springs, Arizona|Mescal Springs]]). Brocius was camping outside his tent near the springs and was surprised while in the act of cooking over a campfire. In the gunfight that followed, Wyatt killed Brocius with a double shotgun blast to the chest from a range of about 50 feet (15 m). Brocius narrowly missed his own shot, hitting only Wyatt's long winter coat.

After Brocius' death, his friends were said by John Flood to have buried the body on the nearby Frank Patterson ranch on the [[Babocomari River]]. This land, close to the original McLaury ranch site before the McLaurys moved to the Sulphur Springs Valley in late 1880, originally is believed to have previously belonged to Frank Stilwell and is located on the river about five miles (8 km) west of the ghost-town [[Fairbank]]. If Brocius' body is there, in a still-wild section of country, the gravesite has been lost. Some claimed that Curly Bill escaped, changed his name, and went to Texas. However, he was never seen again in Tombstone after [[March 24]], [[1882]], despite a $2,000 reward later put up by the ''Tombstone Epitaph'' for an authentic interview and sighting of him alive.

Tombstone historian Ben Traywick has argued that this was too much money for a man like Brocius to turn down, especially since he was not wanted by the law in Arizona for any crime and had no reason to disappear when he did (and certainly no reason to go back to Texas, where he probably ''was'' a wanted man). In any case, the money offered by the ''Tombstone Epitaph'' was never claimed.

== Portrayals in film ==
*Brocius is played by [[Jon Voight]] in ''[[Hour of the Gun]]'' (1967).
*Brocius is played by [[Powers Boothe]] in the 1993 movie ''[[Tombstone (movie)|Tombstone]]'' (1993) starring [[Kurt Russell]] as Wyatt Earp. This movie draws heavily on the Breakenridge book ''[[Helldorado]]''.
*Brocius is played by [[Lewis Smith]] in the 1994 movie ''[[Wyatt Earp (film)|Wyatt Earp]]'' ([[1994]]) starring [[Kevin Costner]] as Wyatt Earp.

== Resources ==
*Sifakis, Carl. ''Encyclopedia of American Crime''. New York: Facts on File Inc., 1982.

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.westernoutlaw.com/stories/files/Showdown.pdf Quotes from historical documents]
* [http://members.tripod.com/~Tombstonehistory/cbindex.html Historical detective work by Steve Gatto]
* [http://www.tombstone1880.com/archives/curly.htm Contemporary newspaper account of Curly Bill's near-fatal shooting in May 1881]

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[[Category:Year of birth missing]]
[[Category:1882 deaths]]
[[Category:People shot dead by police]]
[[Category:Outlaws of the American Old West]]
[[Category:Cochise County, Arizona]]
[[Category:Gunmen of the American Old West]]

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List of computer vision conferences

2007-10-31T06:52:35Z

68.101.107.211: /* Computer vision conferences */

This is a list of the most prominent conferences within the field of [[Computer vision]], [[Pattern recognition]] and to some extent [[image processing]].

== Computer vision conferences ==
* International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
** [http://www.cvpr.org/ CVPR] main homepage
** CVPR 2009 Miami, USA. June
** [http://www.cvpr.org/2008/ CVPR 2008 Anchorage], USA. June 24-26
** [http://www.cvpr.org/2007/ CVPR 2007 Minneapolis], USA. June 18-23
** [http://www.cvpr.org/2006/ CVPR 2006 New York], USA. June 17-22
** [http://www.cs.duke.edu/cvpr2005/ CVPR 2005 San Diego], USA. June 20-25
** [http://cvl.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/cvpr2004/ CVPR 2004 Washington DC], USA. June 27-July 2
** [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/cvpr2003/ CVPR 2003 Madison], USA June 16-22
** [http://vision.cse.psu.edu/cvpr2001/ CVPR 2001 Kauai], USA Dec 9-14
** [http://cvpr2000.cs.uiuc.edu/ CVPR 2000 Hilton Head], USA June 13-15
** CVPR 1999 Ft. Collins, USA June June 23-25
** CVPR 1999 Santa Barbara, USA June June 23-25
** CVPR 1997 San Juan, Puerto Rico, June 17-19
** CVPR 1996 San Francisco, CA, USA June 18-20
** CVPR 1994 Seattle, WA, USA

* International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
** [http://www.icpr2008.org/ ICPR 2008 Tampa], USA. December 8-11
** [http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~icpr06/ ICPR 2006 Hong Kong], China. August 20-24
** [http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/icpr2004/ ICPR 2004 Cambridge], UK. August 23-26
** [http://icpr2002.gel.ulaval.ca/ ICPR 2002 Québec], Canada. August 11-15

* IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
** ICCV 2011 Barcelona, Spain.
** ICCV 2009 Kyoto, Japan.
** [http://iccv2007.rutgers.edu/ ICCV 2007 Rio de Janeiro], Brazil. October 14-21
** [http://research.microsoft.com/iccv2005/ ICCV 2005 Beijing], China. October 15-21
** [http://lear.inrialpes.fr/people/triggs/events/iccv03/ ICCV 2003 Nice], France. October 13-16
** [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/conferences/ICCV/ ICCV 2001 Vancouver], Canada. July 9-12

* European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
** ECCV 2010 Heraklion, Crete. September
** [http://eccv2008.inrialpes.fr/ ECCV 2008 Marseille], France. October 12 - 18
** [http://eccv2006.tugraz.at/ ECCV 2006 Graz], Austria. May 7 - 13
** [http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/eccv2004/ ECCV 2004 Prague], Czech Republic. May 11-14
** [http://www.itu.dk/events/eccv02/ ECCV 2002 Copenhagen], Denmark. May 27 - June 2.

* Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
** [http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACCV2007/ ACCV 2007 Tokyo], Japan. November 18-22
** [http://www.iiit.ac.in/ACCV2006/ ACCV 2006 Hyderabad], India. January 13-16
** ACCV 2004, Korea
** [http://batman.eng.monash.edu.au/accv_2002/accv_2002.htm ACCV 2002 Melbourne], Australia. January 22-25

== Closely related conferences ==
* International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
** [http://www.icip2010.org/ ICIP 2010 Hong Kong]. September 12-15
** ICIP 2009 Cairo, Egypt. September
** [http://www.icip08.org/ ICIP 2008 San Diego], USA. October 12-15
** [http://www.icip2007.org/ ICIP 2007 San Antonio],USA. September 16-19
** [http://www.icip2006.org/ ICIP 2006 Atlanta], USA. October 8-11
** [http://www.icip05.org/welcome.htm ICIP 2005 Genova], Italy. September 11-14

* Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT)
** [http://psivt2006.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ PSIVT 2006 Hsinchu], Taiwan, December 11-13
** [http://www.psivt.org/ PSIVT 2007 Santiago], Chile, December 17-19

== External links ==
* [http://iris.usc.edu/Information/Iris-Conferences.html Computer Vision Conference Listing], University of Southern California
* [http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/~sab/conf.html Upcoming Computer Vision Conferences], Vienna University of Technology
* [http://www.isi.uu.nl/Conferences/ Conferences Medical Imaging and Computer Vision], Image Sciences Institute

[[Category:Computer vision]]
[[Category:Computer lists|Computer vision conferences]]

List of computer vision conferences

2007-10-31T06:36:13Z

68.101.107.211: /* Computer vision conferences */

This is a list of the most prominent conferences within the field of [[Computer vision]], [[Pattern recognition]] and to some extent [[image processing]].

== Computer vision conferences ==
* International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
** [http://www.cvpr.org/ CVPR] main homepage
** CVPR 2009 Miami, USA. June
** [http://www.cvpr.org/2008/ CVPR 2008 Anchorage], USA. June 24-26
** [http://www.cvpr.org/2007/ CVPR 2007 Minneapolis], USA. June 18-23
** [http://www.cvpr.org/2006/ CVPR 2006 New York], USA. June 17-22
** [http://www.cs.duke.edu/cvpr2005/ CVPR 2005 San Diego], USA. June 20-25
** [http://cvl.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/cvpr2004/ CVPR 2004 Washington DC], USA. June 27-July 2
** [http://www.cs.toronto.edu/cvpr2003/ CVPR 2003 Madison], USA June 16-22

* International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
** [http://www.icpr2008.org/ ICPR 2008 Tampa], USA. December 8-11
** [http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~icpr06/ ICPR 2006 Hong Kong], China. August 20-24
** [http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/icpr2004/ ICPR 2004 Cambridge], UK. August 23-26
** [http://icpr2002.gel.ulaval.ca/ ICPR 2002 Québec], Canada. August 11-15

* IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
** ICCV 2011 Barcelona, Spain.
** ICCV 2009 Kyoto, Japan.
** [http://iccv2007.rutgers.edu/ ICCV 2007 Rio de Janeiro], Brazil. October 14-21
** [http://research.microsoft.com/iccv2005/ ICCV 2005 Beijing], China. October 15-21
** [http://lear.inrialpes.fr/people/triggs/events/iccv03/ ICCV 2003 Nice], France. October 13-16
** [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/conferences/ICCV/ ICCV 2001 Vancouver], Canada. July 9-12

* European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
** ECCV 2010 Heraklion, Crete. September
** [http://eccv2008.inrialpes.fr/ ECCV 2008 Marseille], France. October 12 - 18
** [http://eccv2006.tugraz.at/ ECCV 2006 Graz], Austria. May 7 - 13
** [http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/eccv2004/ ECCV 2004 Prague], Czech Republic. May 11-14
** [http://www.itu.dk/events/eccv02/ ECCV 2002 Copenhagen], Denmark. May 27 - June 2.

* Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
** [http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACCV2007/ ACCV 2007 Tokyo], Japan. November 18-22
** [http://www.iiit.ac.in/ACCV2006/ ACCV 2006 Hyderabad], India. January 13-16
** ACCV 2004, Korea
** [http://batman.eng.monash.edu.au/accv_2002/accv_2002.htm ACCV 2002 Melbourne], Australia. January 22-25

== Closely related conferences ==
* International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
** [http://www.icip2010.org/ ICIP 2010 Hong Kong]. September 12-15
** ICIP 2009 Cairo, Egypt. September
** [http://www.icip08.org/ ICIP 2008 San Diego], USA. October 12-15
** [http://www.icip2007.org/ ICIP 2007 San Antonio],USA. September 16-19
** [http://www.icip2006.org/ ICIP 2006 Atlanta], USA. October 8-11
** [http://www.icip05.org/welcome.htm ICIP 2005 Genova], Italy. September 11-14

* Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT)
** [http://psivt2006.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ PSIVT 2006 Hsinchu], Taiwan, December 11-13
** [http://www.psivt.org/ PSIVT 2007 Santiago], Chile, December 17-19

== External links ==
* [http://iris.usc.edu/Information/Iris-Conferences.html Computer Vision Conference Listing], University of Southern California
* [http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/~sab/conf.html Upcoming Computer Vision Conferences], Vienna University of Technology
* [http://www.isi.uu.nl/Conferences/ Conferences Medical Imaging and Computer Vision], Image Sciences Institute

[[Category:Computer vision]]
[[Category:Computer lists|Computer vision conferences]]

List of computer vision conferences

2007-10-31T06:34:11Z

68.101.107.211: /* Computer vision conferences */

This is a list of the most prominent conferences within the field of [[Computer vision]], [[Pattern recognition]] and to some extent [[image processing]].

== Computer vision conferences ==
* International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
** [http://www.cvpr.org/ CVPR] main homepage
** CVPR 2009 Miami, USA. June
** [http://www.cvpr.org/2008/ CVPR 2008 Anchorage], USA. June 24-26
** [http://www.cvpr.org/2007/ CVPR 2007 Minneapolis], USA. June 18-23
** [http://www.cvpr.org/2006/ CVPR 2006 New York], USA. June 17-22
** [http://www.cs.duke.edu/cvpr2005/ CVPR 2005 San Diego], USA. June 20-25
** [http://cvl.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/cvpr2004/ CVPR 2004 Washington DC]. USA. Jun 27-July 2

* International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
** [http://www.icpr2008.org/ ICPR 2008 Tampa], USA. December 8-11
** [http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/~icpr06/ ICPR 2006 Hong Kong], China. August 20-24
** [http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/icpr2004/ ICPR 2004 Cambridge], UK. August 23-26
** [http://icpr2002.gel.ulaval.ca/ ICPR 2002 Québec], Canada. August 11-15

* IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
** ICCV 2011 Barcelona, Spain.
** ICCV 2009 Kyoto, Japan.
** [http://iccv2007.rutgers.edu/ ICCV 2007 Rio de Janeiro], Brazil. October 14-21
** [http://research.microsoft.com/iccv2005/ ICCV 2005 Beijing], China. October 15-21
** [http://lear.inrialpes.fr/people/triggs/events/iccv03/ ICCV 2003 Nice], France. October 13-16
** [http://www.cs.ubc.ca/conferences/ICCV/ ICCV 2001 Vancouver], Canada. July 9-12

* European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
** ECCV 2010 Heraklion, Crete. September
** [http://eccv2008.inrialpes.fr/ ECCV 2008 Marseille], France. October 12 - 18
** [http://eccv2006.tugraz.at/ ECCV 2006 Graz], Austria. May 7 - 13
** [http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/eccv2004/ ECCV 2004 Prague], Czech Republic. May 11-14
** [http://www.itu.dk/events/eccv02/ ECCV 2002 Copenhagen], Denmark. May 27 - June 2.

* Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV)
** [http://www.am.sanken.osaka-u.ac.jp/ACCV2007/ ACCV 2007 Tokyo], Japan. November 18-22
** [http://www.iiit.ac.in/ACCV2006/ ACCV 2006 Hyderabad], India. January 13-16
** ACCV 2004, Korea
** [http://batman.eng.monash.edu.au/accv_2002/accv_2002.htm ACCV 2002 Melbourne], Australia. January 22-25

== Closely related conferences ==
* International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
** [http://www.icip2010.org/ ICIP 2010 Hong Kong]. September 12-15
** ICIP 2009 Cairo, Egypt. September
** [http://www.icip08.org/ ICIP 2008 San Diego], USA. October 12-15
** [http://www.icip2007.org/ ICIP 2007 San Antonio],USA. September 16-19
** [http://www.icip2006.org/ ICIP 2006 Atlanta], USA. October 8-11
** [http://www.icip05.org/welcome.htm ICIP 2005 Genova], Italy. September 11-14

* Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT)
** [http://psivt2006.ee.nthu.edu.tw/ PSIVT 2006 Hsinchu], Taiwan, December 11-13
** [http://www.psivt.org/ PSIVT 2007 Santiago], Chile, December 17-19

== External links ==
* [http://iris.usc.edu/Information/Iris-Conferences.html Computer Vision Conference Listing], University of Southern California
* [http://www.prip.tuwien.ac.at/~sab/conf.html Upcoming Computer Vision Conferences], Vienna University of Technology
* [http://www.isi.uu.nl/Conferences/ Conferences Medical Imaging and Computer Vision], Image Sciences Institute

[[Category:Computer vision]]
[[Category:Computer lists|Computer vision conferences]]

Basics of computer architecture

2007-07-26T01:54:08Z

68.101.123.219: /* Instructions for this lesson */

===Instructions for this lesson===
Read the text and try to understand it. If something is not clear, follow the links for explanations.

===Contents===
''see also [[Computer Architecture Lab]]''
[[Image:ALU symbol.svg|thumb|200px|A typical schematic symbol for an ALU: A & B are operands; R is the output; F is the input from the [[Control Unit]]; D is an output status]]
At the heart of any computer, modern or early, is a (usually) simple circuit called an ALU, or Arithmetic Logic Unit. Its comprised of a few simple operations which can be done fairly quickly. This, along with a small amount of memory running at processor speed called registers, make up what is known as the CPU, or Central Processing Unit.

A CPU isn't very useful unless there is some way to communicate to it, and recieve information back from it. This is usually known as a Bus. The Bus is the input/output, or I/O gateway for the CPU. The primary area the CPU communicates with is system memory, commonly known as RAM, or Random Access Memory. Depending on the platform, the CPU may communicate with other parts of the system, or it may communicate just through memory.

[[Image:80186 arch.png|thumb|left|350px]]
The "word" size of a platform is the native amount of bits that can be moved over the RAM<->CPU bus. Early computers varied on bit sizes, but most modern computers work in multiples of 8 bits, commonly known as a Byte. The first general purpose CPU on a chip, built by Intel, was the 8080 built in 1974. The 8080 used an 8 bit word, meaning it would communicate over the bus 1 byte at a time. In contrast, the 80386 has a 32 bit (4 byte) word, and the IA64 is a 64 bit (8 byte) word.



===Questions for self-test===
{{ABCD
| Question = What is the job of the ALU?
| Atext = Proccess information
| Aanswer = No. This answer is far too vague. What is meant by processing information?

| Btext = Check security of the system
| Banswer = No. This though this may be true on a much higher computing level.

| Ctext = Perform simple calculations.
| Canswer = Yes. The job of the ALU is to perform simple calculations.

| Dtext = Powering up the main systems.
| Danswer = No. The ALU is a very simple proccessor.

}}

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